Weekly overview 15: Unicode 17 shows new emoji, 5 new iPhone models in 2025 and more

Attention emoji enthusiasts, because new emoticons have been announced. Unicode Consortium, the creators of the emojis, have released Beta for Unicode 16 with new emoji. This way we already know which emoticons we can expect later this year.

The current range of emoji is already large, which is why the update has been limited to seven brand new emoji that you can send and use, including an emoticon with bags under the eyes, fingerprint, tree without leaves, harp, shovel and more. The new emoticons will only be added in a later version of iOS 18, iPados 18 and macOS 15, possibly in the spring of 2025.

This year we can expect five new iPhone models. One of them has already been released, the iPhone 16th. Later we can also expect the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Ultra and the brand new iPhone 17 Air. The most special in this list will undoubtedly be the Air, but the Pro models can also count on interesting innovations.

The ‘standard’ iPhone 17 of course also gets the necessary changes, but will be less spectacular. All four models are expected this fall. We list the most important rumors for you so that you know exactly what to expect from Apple’s iPhone-Line Up for 2025.